Join our Young People Service to support the development of the Skills and Education Development offer, with this exciting opportunity. You would be joining a high performing and innovative team, committed to improving outcomes for children and young people, many of whom have not had successful experiences in education or are not in education training and employment. Whilst sat under the youth justice structure, this is a role that will also support children from across the Young People’s Service as a whole. You would be managed by the Youth Justice Education Manager and would be a key member of the Education and Skills Team.
The young people of Southampton need someone who is passionate about education and improving the lives of young people, recognising the barriers they often face, as well as the complexities of their needs. They deserve a champion who is passionate about their success and will nurture not only high expectations of themselves, but also of partners and providers across the city and beyond.
About You
We are looking for someone who celebrates the strengths of our young people, finding creative and innovative strategies to support those who require additional help to do so. Within our service, we believe passionately in the power of positive relationships, and it is imperative that the person in this role will successfully build these in a Trauma and Attachment informed way. Within this role, the successful applicant will be expected to use these positive relationships to motivate young people to bring about positive change, that supports a future with high aspiration and positive outcomes. This post requires someone who is kind, consistent and compassionate about everyone they work with.
You will be working in a challenging but supportive environment, working in both small group as well as through 1:1 delivery styles. You will be designing and delivering a varied and highly bespoke curriculum, that meets the needs of children with a range of complex needs. The post will require innovative and engaging delivery styles, to support children with developing a passion for learning and raising aspirations.
About The Role
You will work with the education and skills team, to drive forward the alternative provision and accreditation agenda in the hub. This role also includes the tracking of achievement and progress, to celebrate each child’s strengths and growth, which can be shared within their professional network. It is therefore particularly important to bring a creative and innovative approach to the work, finding engaging ways for children to demonstrate their strengths and to creatively capture evidence of progress.
The successful candidate needs to have an excellent understanding of developing positive relationships with the children in our care. This is particularly important as we grow our provision to ensure we have the role models, support, and most importantly passionate practitioners around our young people.
We will give you the training and development you need to be at the forefront of classroom delivery for children with a number of barriers to accessing education. As well as this, you will be working alongside experienced, committed, and enthusiastic staff, focused on child centred and trauma informed practice.
The successful candidate will have experience of working with young people with complex backgrounds and challenging behaviours, and will be able to implement a variety of approaches to bridge any potential learning gaps. They will have experience of working in school environments, working with groups of children, delivering teaching sessions and will understand the complex educational landscape to be able to support our education colleagues in the achievement of re-integration to education. The candidate will also be familiar with educational progress measures, to support in the delivery of target setting and goals for not only our school colleagues, but also around Laser accreditation pathways for all children across the young people service.
This exciting role is a highly rewarding one, working with a team passionately advocating for children who often do not have a voice, and supporting them to create positive changes. We pride ourselves on the quality of our delivery and strive to be at the fore-front of Attachment and Trauma informed practice.
Our young people’s hub where you will be based, has been designed by young people and is an amazing place to work. It has a common room space, a kitchen, a music room and skills area where young people can learn to be a barista, bike mechanic, learn hairdressing and much more! We hope to increase the activity and learning space as we grow, and are currently in the development stages of an Education and Skills Training Room. We are looking for someone that has aspiration and vision, to join a team who are passionate about achieving great things, and making significant impact on improving opportunities for the children in our city.
What We Can Offer You
Here at SCC we have a range of different perks and benefits, a few examples can be found below.
- A generous local government pension scheme.
- Flexible working (role dependant). Up to 13 days of Flexi Leave.
- Hybrid working arrangements (role dependant).
- 25 days annual leave (pro rata), plus bank holidays.
- Online Benefits – salary sacrifice schemes, benefits and discounts.
- Great local transport links.
- Employee assistance programme with access to our health wellbeing and support.
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